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Chemist Omar Yaghi invented materials called MOFs, a few grams of which have the surface area of a football field. He ...

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Chiara Marchisio is a freelance journalist who writes about science and tech. She has an MSc in Bioinformatics for Health Sciences. Her work has appeared in New Scientist, Science News and Italian ...

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The way time ticks forward in our universe has long stumped physicists. Now, a new set of tools from entangled atoms to black ...